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Admin By Request
Admin By Request is betting that the safest administrator account is the one that disappears when the work is done. Its lightweight platform turns permanent privilege into a temporary, logged and policy-checked event.
Howard Ting
Howard Ting is the CEO of Opal Security, a San Francisco identity-security company building a unified control plane for access governance. He took the top job in November 2025 after more than five years running Cyberhaven and two-plus decades scaling category-defining security and enterprise-software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Nutanix, Redis, Zscaler, and RSA Security. A marketing-and-product operator who once demoed Azure Active Directory on stage with Bill Gates, Ting now bets that the hardest unsolved problem in security is authorization: deciding what any human, service, or AI agent should be allowed to do, and for how long.
Umaimah Khan
Umaimah Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Opal Security, a San Francisco identity security company building the controls that decide who - and increasingly what - can access an organization's systems. A homeschooled math kid who entered MIT at 16 and fell for cryptography, she did research embedded with government agencies including DARPA, then engineered infrastructure and security at two startups that became unicorns. She founded Opal in 2020 to treat authorization as the hard technical problem she believes it is, and has raised roughly $32M, including a $22M Series B in December 2023. Opal's customers include Cloudflare, Figma, Databricks, Scale AI, Grammarly and Perplexity.
Opal Security
Opal Security is an AI-native identity and access governance platform that gives enterprises real-time visibility and direct control over every identity - employees, service accounts, and AI agents alike. Founded in 2020 in San Francisco, Opal replaces stale, checkbox-style access reviews with policy-as-code and just-in-time access so organizations can enforce least privilege at scale instead of merely auditing it after the fact.
Lars Pedersen
Lars Sneftrup Pedersen is the founder and CEO of Admin By Request, a cloud-based Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform headquartered in Aalborg, Denmark with U.S. operations in San Francisco. He built Admin By Request from the ground up starting in 2017, scaling it 900% over five years to serve enterprise clients including McLaren, the Red Cross, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Disney. A serial entrepreneur and software veteran with roots at Telenor Denmark and FastTrack Software, Lars has become one of Denmark's leading figures in endpoint security, earning the 2024 Regional Owner-Manager of the Year award for Digital Transformation in Northern Jutland. He is also a tech investor in Intellis and an unlikely sponsor of Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen.